Someone Else's Cafe / Doomscroller Tries To Relax lyrics - Dawes
You can poison opposition
Find out which war to declare
You can polish up the prisons
And send all your critics there
You seem willing and able
And used to getting your way
But you're still waiting tables
In someone else's cafe
You can call yourself a living god
If it rallies up the troops
Reinstate the firing squad
Lace up your combat boots
Your vitals are stable
In your stupid beret
But you're still waiting tables
In someone else's cafe
In someone else's cafe
You can make 'em call you Beelzebub
You can make 'em call you chief (chief)
Make some face paint out of baby blood
Wear a necklace made of teeth
You could be living a fable
In your one man parade
But you're still waiting tables
In someone else's cafe
From the rock of the cradle
'Til we're dead in our graves
We're all waiting tables
In someone else's cafe
In someone else's cafe
So let's enjoy each other's company
On the brink of our despair
Does someone have a song to sing
Or a joke that they could share?
Let's enjoy each other's company (let's enjoy each other's company)
On the brink of our despair (on the brink of our despair)
Does someone have a song to sing (does someone have a song to sing)
Or a joke that they could share? (or a joke that they could share?)
So let's enjoy each other's company
On the brink of our despair
Does someone have a song to sing
Or a joke that they could share?
Let's enjoy each other's company (let's enjoy each other's company)
On the brink of our despair (on the brink of our despair)
Does someone have a song to sing (does someone have a song to sing)
Or a joke that they could share? (or a joke that they could share?)
Comes In Waves lyrics - Dawes
A boy that grows up in a beach town
And never learns to surf
Sounds like the perfect distillation
Of my time spent here on Earth
But I have stared at the horizon
With both feet in the sand
The thing I love about the ocean
It comes in waves
Waves
I've been feeling like a light bulb
When the filament won't glow
Surrounded by a darkness
Cause the current's moving slow
Am I losing my intensity
Is that feeling here to stay
But that's the thing 'bout electricity
It comes in waves
Waves
I think I've found something in common
With nothingness and God
You stare at either in the face too long
They'll do each other's job
Sometimes those silences are holy
Sometimes I'm drifting into space
But if the spirit's moving through me
It comes in waves
It comes in waves
I think their grip is getting looser
I think they're giving us a try
If you feel good about the future
Then baby so do I
Let's keep an eye on all our enemies
While we're popping the champagne
Cause that's the thing about a victory
It comes in waves (It comes in waves)
It comes in waves (It comes in waves)
It comes in waves (It comes in waves)
It comes in waves (It comes in waves)
Everything Is Permanent lyrics - Dawes
A product of my time zone
Mixed CDs and dial tones
Where we would listen to the universe think
While our heroes from the wreckage
Deliver us their message
On the perks of knowing how to lip sync
I can see the last frontier
The sunshine on a perfect day
Everything is permanent now
The single that gets overplayed
Everything is permanent now
The bubbles in your third rosé
Everything is permanent now
The movements of the Milky Way
Everything is permanent now
A wilderness of gossip
Asking for deposits
Yet it leaves you with some type of withdrawal
Playing on our senses
With a thousand of its lenses
On everything you ate or just bought
The voices in the atmosphere
The home life of celebrities
Everything is permanent now
Subliminal obscenities
Everything is permanent now
The side effects of ecstasy
Everything is permanent now
All the people that we used to be
Everything is permanent now
Everything is permanent now
Everything is permanent now
These tangled creeping vines
Towards a life you left behind
And the people you'd forgotten you kissed
A wayward strand of anger
At some controversial stranger
Who swears the virus didn't exist
I don't know where we go from here
I don't know how I'm supposed to feel
The language of the hemispheres
The lonely server farms
The level of the rising sea
Everything is permanent now
The politics of Christmas trees
Everything is permanent now
The whole world within one screen
Everything is permanent now
I'm thinking we should all come clean
Everything is permanent now, now, now
Did you really need to cry or be seen crying?
Did you really need to cry or be seen crying?
Did you really need to cry or be seen crying?
Ghost In The Machine lyrics - Dawes
Standing right outside the Echo
When we were still just cutting teeth
Turning madness into waveforms
Searching chords for what's beneath
All these existential freshmen
Trying to keep our noses clean
Scared to show our faith in
The ghost in the machine
Standing right outside the Echo
When we were working for the door
Assuming all our dreams were brighter than
The bands we played before
But you could see it in their hunger
You could hear it in their screams
They too were just trying to make contact
With the ghost in the machine
Through the build-ups and the breakdowns
Through the boom and through the crash
Building stockpiles of excuses
On how to trade it in for cash
All the poisonous motel rooms
The lobby call at 6:15
One million miles upon a highway
For a ghost in the machine
All the doubts and hesitations
I built up in my early years
Are under reconsideration
Through the music of the spheres
Which I cannot deny any longer
When every night I reconvene
With these vibrations giving proof of
The ghost in the machine
The ghost in the machine
The ghost in the machine
The ghost in the machine
Joke In There Somewhere lyrics - Dawes
Each morning my beloved
Asks me to open up my eyes
See what kind of attention I can pay
I see a corporate coffee house
Puttin' up their Christmas decorations
Commuter cars all waiting at a light
A line outside the Roxy
Full of hopeful conversation
Some local band is playing there tonight
A couple walks their dog discussing
What to eat for dinner
A runaway is being read his rights
A hotel hosts a conference called
"Investment For Beginners"
Some high school coach is breaking up a fight
But there's a joke in there somewhere
A joke in there somewhere
A joke in there somewhere
One that I am not prepared to make
This afternoon my doctor
Had me sit down in a chair
He asks me then to walk him through my day
I heard radios bring ball games
To an ancient glacial traffic
A starving dog was whimpering in pain
A soundcheck through the alley
That sounds like something close to magic
For a traveling dad that's bound to miss his plane
A boomer on a cell phone
Talking through party provisions
Beneath the giant bullseye neon sign
And I mention dixie cups and pizza crusts
And giant televisions
The allegory of the conga line
There's a joke in there somewhere
A joke in there somewhere
A joke in there somewhere
One that I just don't know how to tell
And now as the sun is setting
I meet my brother for a drink
And he asks if I've got something on my mind
So I tell him about this movie
And how I didn't get the ending
Why do they let the creature get away?
He reminds me that all it is
Is costumes and pretending
But there must be something else they're trying to say
About these buildings and the asphalt
In their natural habitations
The pigeons, cats and rats and parasites
This wild and dancing city
Conducting perfect orchestrations
The way a stranger wishes us goodnight
But he says, "every time we've sat here
Getting nervous for the future
We've ended up some version of ok
These songs that we are singing
Shouldn't give in to the rumors
They should give some kind of strength to meet the day"
But there's a joke in there somewhere
A joke in there somewhere
A joke in there somewhere
We just gotta find a way to laugh
We just gotta find a way to laugh
Sound That No One Made / Doomscroller Sunrise lyrics - Dawes
The morning fog descends upon the late night's cheapest thrills
The most committed socialites see the sunrise in the hills
Mistakes are slowly realized
Memories distilled
And the static starts to fade
From the laughter of a maniac
To a songbirds melody
From the howling of the sirens
To the swaying of the trees
It fuses all together
To find that perfect frequency
And then forever ricochets
Into a sound that no one made
I look up to see you slowing down while
Signaling a right
The older man behind us now
Is flashing you his brights
We both seem so distracted
By this growing appetite
To punish and persuade
The silent conversation gets directed toward the view
The cursive in the branches describes the avenue
The words like "I am sorry" and "I'm still in love with you"
Become a debt that won't get paid
Just another sound that no one made
I am rolling down the window to the city's radiation
The connected dream still dancing through the sky
I just need someone who will listen
Through this strange and dark existence
Or the consolation of knowing that you'll try
As we pull off of the freeway
A hospital appears
I see a man up in the window
On the back end of his years
And I imagine him there dying
With that ringing in his ears
That we all end up with someday
There's a code within the symptom
A morbid sort of sign
The ominous reminder of the body's slow decline
As constant as a heartbeat
But stronger over time
While the rest of us decays
Listening to a sound that no one made
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